Senior Android Developer

Location: Austin, Texas

Join the Qv21 team! A dynamic, forward-thinking software company has an immediate need for a highly experienced, high caliber, highly driven Senior Android Developer with an energetic and positive attitude. The position represents a ground floor opportunity to join this fast growing SaaS company in Austin, TX and become an integral part of the technology team. Candidate MUST have a great attitude to fit in with this team. The Senior Android Developer will play a critical role in improving, expanding, and sustaining our Android platform.

About us:
We are a fast-growth organization in a SaaS-based environment with logistics solutions for transportation companies. You will be working with a hands-on, experienced senior management team of technology, business and logistics professionals. HQ is in Austin, Texas.

If this job description sounds interesting to you and you’d like to be the part of a great team, please send a detailed cover letter, resume highlighting your experience, and five words that describe you to careers@Qv21.com.

Note: Due to a high volume of resumes received, only qualified applicants will be contacted. Thank you.

What we care about:

Design - making sure the application architecture is properly written, testable, scalable and maintainable. We obsess over great code that works great.

Reliability - it has to work all the time. We love unit tests, mock objects, continuous build and integration and collaborative development.

Deadline Focused - The ability to work well under pressure and adhere to deadlines is a must.

Self Starter and Independent - to work on jobs without much detail while able to ask effective questions is crucial for this role.

Responsibilities and Skills:

3-5 Years experience Java on Android

Core Java skills, such as multi-threading, and familiar with the JDK libraries

UI Layout / UI Assets (e.g. 9-patch images)

MVC on Android with Activities/Intentions/Services

SQL/SQLite

JSON/REST APIs

Push Notifications

Experience with apps that function offline and perform synchronization with remote services

Desired Skills:

OrmLite

Jackson Library for JSON

Spring REST client

Custom UI views

Crash reporting library, such as BugSense

Flurry for metrics/analytics

Implementing/testing on varied class of devices, different Android versions and screen sizes

Server-side integration of push notifications with UrbanAirShip

HTML/CSS on Web Views

Git

Qualifications:

MS or BS in computer science, EECS, or equivalent knowledge and experience

Austin candidates only.

Residency requirement:

Qv21 Technologies currently is not sponsoring work-visa holding candidates. No H1B or relevant applications. We require that candidates are eligible to work in the United States.